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DataFlux demonstration of product data quality software

DataFlux demonstration of product data quality software

Date: Sep 03, 2009

A high level of data quality is critical to understanding product inventory and supply chain operations. Products data must be accurate if you're to to succesfully conduct spend analysis and spot trends and iniefficiencies. Good product data is also critical to master data management (MDM) initiatives.

In this screencast, Ron Agresta, a solutions manager for DataFlux, a subsidiary of SAS Institute based in Cary, N.C., demonstrates the vendor's Accelerator for Materials Data Classification (AMDC). AMDC helps companies improve the quality of inventory and product data, and is designed for business users, according to Agresta. It has a relatively simple interface that lets business users, those with domain expertise, manually and automatically classify product data, he said.

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